I’m here, I’m a geek, I’m of the female persuasion. Anybody got questions? Want opinions? Bored at work?
I didn’t realize there were girls who couldn’t get laid.
There aren’t. I’m quite newly and happily married, actually. 
I just realized that if there questions start leaning toward movies and comics, this thread would belong in Cafe Society. Oops! Mods, please move me if necessary.
Well that answers my question. :smack:
She said ex-comic shop employee.
How about this question: What do you think was the best adaptation of a comic book character for the movies? The worst?
Heheh. I always was popular at the comic shop and at various male-dominated film fests and such.
If it makes you feel any better, I met my husband when he was one of our regular customers and when I quit to take another job, he took my place there. I guess the moral of the story is that if there’s a hot chick working at your comic shop, it’s not totally worthless to flirt with her. 
Jay Belanger: Hmm…for best I’d have to go with either Spider-man in the recent Raimi film (I take no issue with the organic webshooters, as I feel the overall film is a good representation of the spirit of the comic) or Christopher Reeve’s Superman, who is an ideal pre-crisis Supes. I’m also a big fan of the Batman animated series.
For worst, we have candidates like Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four, The Punisher (Dolph Lungren version - the jury’s still out on the new one), or one I recently saw, the 1997 pilot for a Justice League TV series that mercifully never made the airwaves.
Imagine the best element being David Ogden Stiers as Martian Manhunter. The worst element was that the framing device for the show was a bunch of talking head interviews of the different heroes in their regular joe identities, discussing their wacky superhero adventures. It was like if the Justice League appeared on The Real World. Horrifyingly awful. Also, the costumes were terrible and the budget was so low they couldn’t show many big disasters the heroes were helping to avert, so instead they’d just cut to a newscaster describing what had happened. Bad, bad, bad, clumsy and bad.
I’ll go along with this one. I have seen that movie more often than any other, probably.
I liked that, too, but I don’t think it aged well, and I thought it was too cartoony in parts. But then, I haven’t seen it in a while
A wonderful series, in all it’s incarnations. Plus, a lot of later series seem to mimic it’s style.
There have been several Spider-Man cartoons, so I can’t specify which one, but in one of them the whole cartoon was filled with thought dialogs: Doc Ock would point a gun at Spider-Man, and Spider-Man would think “Oh, no, Doc Ock is pointing a gun at me!” I couldn’t watch it. In contrast, BTAS would let the pictures tell the story.
Another cartoon series that was great was the old Fleisher Superman cartoons. The stories weren’t really that good, but the animation was great. No unnecessary dialog, and a good use of shadows.
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I have never, alas, seen the Fantastic Four movie, I have, alas, seen The Punisher. Yes, it was, and I was punished by watching it. I heard about an amazingly awful Justice League movie, but I didn’t realize it was as recent as 1997.
Jay Belanger: The Superman film IS cartoony, but that’s totally in line with the pre-crisis comics. The second film is a lot of fun too, but the third and fourth ones are oh-so-bad.
I haven’t seen the new Spider-man cartoon on MTV, but I’ve heard it’s pretty good. I know Brian Michael Bendis is involved with it, and I admire his work a lot.
Did you ever see the Nick Fury TV-movie that aired on Fox a few years back? David Hasselhoff starred as Fury. Staggeringly awful, really.
I did like the Superman film, especially when it first came out. My tastes have changed a bit, but I still do appreciate it. The second one definitely had it’s moments, too.
I managed to block out most of the third; I remember Richard Pryor was in it, and good, clean Supes battled dirty, evil Supes, but that’s it.
The fourth one, though, I haven’t managed to forget. I’ve tried drugs, therapy, hypnosis, and none of it works. It was truly awful. Awful Awful Awful.
The MTV Spider-Man is pretty good. The animation takes a bit of getting used to, it’s all computer generated. So the characters always wear the same clothes all the time, and normal movement like walking looks slightly off. But the action scenes are incredible. And the stories are pretty good, too.
I heard of it, and I saw some stills of David Hasselhoff as Nick Fury. I managed to avoid actually seeing it, though.
One of the hazards of working in a comic shop is seeing a lot of bad, bad comics movies that everyone involved in the production of has tried to bury. But there’s still a market for people who want to make their friends stare in slack-jawed horror at the “Star Wars Holiday Special” or Dr. Doom’s muffled yelling from behind his foam rubber mask.
Two good things came out of Superman 3:
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It eventually brought Annette O’Toole to TV’s Smallville, a show that really found its stride this past season, and she’s good in the show.
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It gets referenced in Office Space when one of the characters points out that their plot to skim fractions of pennies from each financial transaction their company makes is the same as what Richard Pryor does in S3. The guys in Office Space wisely avoid using ordinary computers to reprogram weather satellites to CONTROL THE WEATHER the way Pryor does. You know, because satellites can do that. :smack:
Yeah, I think stuff like that has a certain appeal.
I’ve liked that show from the beginning. I never minded the kryptonite powered evil student of the week. Of course, Lex makes the show. I never realized that “Lex” was short for Alexander until it was mentioned in the most recent “Smallville” comic. In the show that makes a lot of sense, there are a lot of Alexander the Great references. Was Lex always short for Alexander, or is this something they added for the show?
Did it explicitly reference it, or just use the same idea? I think that’s a somewhat famous old scam.
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Let’s see … satellites are high above the surface of the earth, the atmosphere is above the surface of the earth. So satellites control the weather. Ironclad logic, so what’s
the problem?
ok I’m going to interrupt the debate and ask the comic pro a question. My husband has like, four boxes of comic books he bought a while ago. He would like ot know how much they are worth now. Is there anyway we can finda price guide? Either online (preferably and free) or anywhere else (preferably free as well or low cost). He’s bugging me and frankly i grow weary.
heh.
WomanofScorn: The Overstreet Guide is the one most shops use. The new editions are produced every spring and cost about $22.00 for the softcover (though you can probably find it cheaper online). Of course, it’ll only give you a ballpark price since it’s difficult for most people to accurately judge the book’s condition. For books that are published after the annual Guide is released, the shop I worked for used the price guide in the back of Wizard magazine for a lot of its pricing on newer books. As far as I know, there is no online service that offers a price guide for free.
What sort of stuff does he have in his collection? Is it pretty recent?
Jay Belanger: Yes, I believe they’ve referred to Lex as Alexander in the comic. And yes, he totally makes the show. The Battlin’ Luthors are definitely the highlight for me.
They do explicitly reference S3 in Office Space. When they’re laying out their plan, one of them says something like, “Hey, isn’t that the plot of Superman 3?” I feel it was cool of them to acknowledge it, especially because their movie was way better than S3.
WomanofScorn: The Overstreet Guide is the one most shops use. The new editions are produced every spring and cost about $22.00 for the softcover (though you can probably find it cheaper online). Of course, it’ll only give you a ballpark price since it’s difficult for most people to accurately judge the book’s condition. For books that are published after the annual Guide is released, the shop I worked for used the price guide in the back of Wizard magazine for a lot of its pricing on newer books. As far as I know, there is no online service that offers a price guide for free.
What sort of stuff does he have in his collection? Is it pretty recent?
Jay Belanger: Yes, I believe they’ve referred to Lex as Alexander in the comic. And yes, he totally makes the show. The Battlin’ Luthors are definitely the highlight for me.
They do explicitly reference S3 in Office Space. When they’re laying out their plan, one of them says something like, “Hey, isn’t that the plot of Superman 3?” I feel it was cool of them to acknowledge it, especially because their movie was way better than S3.